Space Daily September 14, 2026 • 16:30

In 2018, JTC and NParks sank eight reef structures on bare sand off Small Sister's Island; by February 2022 the two left unplanted carried 95 coral colonies from seven genera - Space Daily

In 2018, JTC and NParks sank eight reef structures on bare sand off Small Sister's Island; by February 2022 the two left unplanted carried 95 coral colonies from seven genera - Space Daily

Nature's patience outpaced human intervention: untouched reef structures attracted more coral than their carefully planted neighbors.

Eight structures went down on bare sand in 2018. Four years later, the two that nobody planted anything on were carrying 95 coral colonies from seven hard-coral genera across their designated survey … [+6115 chars]

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